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Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/11/2008 2:03:29 PM

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His story opens a window on the strains faced by this ancient tribe as it adjusts to modern life in east Africa''s largest economy, whose Indian Ocean beaches lure thousands of tourists, including women seeking sex.
http://www.timesofoman.com/featuredetail.asp?fid=280

I thought this was interesting.

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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/11/2008 2:08:40 PM

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Sometimes a person has to break with tradition in order to survive, I found it to be interesting too. Thanks for sharing it.
I'm glad I'm not in any sort of position like that, being held to a particular ideal no matter what is happening.

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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/11/2008 2:51:06 PM

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We trample all over the indigeous people of this world, eradicating and ridiculing their beliefs and culture, relegating them to one homogeous Westerized world, as if we were helping them.

It is appalling.

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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/11/2008 3:04:11 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: candystripper

We trample all over the indigeous people of this world, eradicating and ridiculing their beliefs and culture, relegating them to one homogeous Westerized world, as if we were helping them.

It is appalling.

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"We"? Why apply your guilt ridden persona on anyone else?

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"The women here love our style. We get good money ... I hope to save enough to marry my second wife ... by end of the year," said the father-of-four from Narok in the Rift Valley.

Longishu Nyangusi, 25, also works as a hairdresser and like Lalasho came to Mombasa to find a white tourist wife. He says his lack of English has held him back.

"I could have hooked a white woman by now. I regret refusing to go to school. I was fooled by our fat cows and thought life is just fine," he said near his open-air salon-cum-shop.

That quote from the article doesn't appear to document any struggle except for sex and money. The man is looking for a "white woman" while working at his open-air salon & cum shop with no gun, western or otherwise, held to his head.

What's "appalling" is thinking his personal decision is a bad one because it doesn't fit into your image of what a person from his culture should do.

Closer to home in Amish communities the same is occurring - you feel a youth from their culture leaving it for the evils of LA or NYC is also an "appalling" for the indigenous people of Lancaster PA?

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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/11/2008 3:24:48 PM

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You said what I was going to say about the 'we'.

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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/12/2008 4:43:54 PM

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royal we perhaps?

i love the lil icon of the pole dancer....but sometimes i wonder if one climbs the pole and slips and falls could one be assumed to have a pole lodged up one's ass, as per a thoughtless store mannequin?

just a thoughtful observation.

or maybe i'm an airheaded
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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/12/2008 6:50:31 PM

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That was interesting, thanks for sharing it.

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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/12/2008 7:44:34 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: candystripper

We trample all over the indigeous people of this world, eradicating and ridiculing their beliefs and culture, relegating them to one homogeous Westerized world, as if we were helping them.

It is appalling.

candystripper

If it's appalling, why are you doing it?

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RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos - 9/13/2008 2:00:36 AM

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All cultures when touching another come to a point of "evolving" or subtle shifting of views. There is no "Prime Directive" from one people to another on this planet. If there was people in 3rd and 2nd world nations would not have electric, or even hand water pumps in which to get fresh water.. and would still be drinking from dity contaminated wells, and streams. ( Some sadly are)

Some cultures have been systematicly erdaicated. ( missionaries being one of the main causes for that, as well as govts wholesale slaughtering groups, or making them come under thier yoke. ( I am Cherokee... I know a bit about this part)

I had watched a special on this issue in the article.. and it is a way for them to "get rich quick" and seek out the good life. They do live in an area that is very hard to eke out a living.. and the traditional ways once exposed to modernized ones do not seem as appealing to them. I can understand that. I wouldn't want to live my life according to my father's mother's ( Nana's) ideas of how I should.. it seems alien and so old fashioned it just makes me ill to think of ever living my life like that. ( Mean old German woman. Very Staunch in *everything* )

So they go to the coast.. and try to hook up with old white broads from Europe with money. Both are benifiting from it. No one is being forced to... no one is told if they do not thier life will end.. They are trying to better themselves by being gigolos.

Now if We wish to discuss repressed native populations we can go there. But this is not one of them.

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